Science Fiction for Old Farts

Today #2

Gary does this because doing something is better than doing nothing. Which is what happens when we become victims of learned helplessness.

Gary writes “And some day, later, rather than sooner, historians will write of the war crimes, and will ask: why did Americans stand by? Why, like ordinary Germans in the Nazi era, did they look away? Why did they not see what was in front of their faces, what was widely reported in magazines and books and blogs, about terrible crimes committed in their names?”

Why? Even my dog Bo knows. Because most people prefer to go through life like this –

When what they should all really be doing is shouting their protest to the world like this –